“Star Trek Into Darkness”, the second installment of Paramount’s reboot of the “Star Trek” movie franchise, helmed by JJ Abrams and written by fellow “Lost” cohorts Damon Lindelof, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, won the domestic box office for the 3-day weekend ending May 19 with an $70.56 million (according to data from the Rentrak Corporation).

The film, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch and Zoe Saldana, opened on Wednesday, May 14 and has earned $84.09 million in total. However, its 2009 reboot original had larger box office figures (then, $75.2 million Fri.-Sun.; $79.2 million Thu.-Sun.). And, while the $70.56-million 3-day gross and $84.09-million 5-day gross is nothing to be too disappointed about, many forecasters projected a much higher opening number (as high as $110 million) due to high praise of the 2009 film combined with higher ticket prices and current releases in 3-D and IMAX (the 2009 film wasn’t in 3-D).

“Star Trek Into Darkness” dethroned the reigning 2-time weekend box office champion, “Iron Man 3.” The Disney/Marvel film finished in second place and grossed $35.18 million. In North America, “Iron Man 3″ has grossed a total of $337.07 million so far, ranking 25th on the all-time domestic box office chart, surpassing 2007′s “Spider-Man 3.” Globally, “Iron Man” has earned $1.07 billion.

Warner Bros.’ “The Great Gatsby” drops to third and 53 percent from last weekend to $23.42 million. Unlike this weekend’s top 2 grossers, which each earned an A Cinemascore (graded from a sample of movie audiences nationwide), “Gatsby” earned the lower B grade which may account for this weekend’s steep drop.

Also in theaters, Paramount’s “Pain and Gain”, grossed $3.1 million for fourth place. Returning to the weekend’s top 5 was the Fox/DreamWorks animation hit “The Croods” with a fifth-place $2.75 million in its ninth week of theatrical release.

The film box office should be buzzing even more next weekend — Memorial Day weekend from May 24-27 — with three big releases to hit cineplexes nationwide: Universal’s “Fast & Furious 6″, Fox’s animation pic “Epic” and Warner Bros.’ “The Hangover III.”

The top-10 domestic weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, May 19, 2013 is available as follows:

With Sunday Night Football and three hours of “The Voice” on the line-up, NBC will automatically seems like it has momentum next fall. But don’t be fooled. There is work to be done, and plenty of it, but NBC is at least making the attempt. Unlike recent seasons when the schedule remained populated with low-rated sitcoms, the departures of…deep breathe…”Go On,” “The New Normal,” “Guys With Kids,” “Up All Night” and “1600 Penn” (not to mention tired “The Office” and “30 Rock”) means it could be a fresh start.

The strategy for NBC next season was to develop enough comedies and dramas to take advantage of the promotional lift from the February 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia, and devise two schedules for the upcoming season. And there is no shortage of new product.

Fall 2013 will feature the arrival of six new series (dramas “The Blacklist,” “Ironside” and “Dracula;” and sitcoms “Welcome to the Family,” “Sean Saves the World” and “The Michael J. Fox Show”). And midseason 2014 (which, of course, is not etched in stone until the network sees how the fall line-up fares) will feature six confirmed new occupants (sitcoms “About a Boy” and “The Family Guide;” dramas “Crossbones,” “Believe” and “Crisis,” and reality/competition “American Dream Builders”). Waiting in the midseason wings are dramas “Chicago PD” and “Night Shift,’ sitcom “Undateable;” and non-scripted “Food Fighters.” “The Million Second Quiz,” a live game show, will air for 12 straight nights in the fall.

Do the math and NBC has announced 17 new series.

Surprisingly, “The Bigger Loser” made the fall cut, and will open on Tuesday into a 9 p.m. edition of “The Voice” (which leads into relocated “Chicago Fire”). The singing competition will remain intact in the Monday 8-10 p.m. block, but the lead-out this fall is new drama “The Blacklist.” Current Monday 10 p.m. occupant “Revolution” will shift to Wednesday at 8 p.m. (which could be too early for the intense drama), followed by veteran “Law & Order: SVU” and the remake of classic detective drama “Ironside” from 9-11 p.m.

Wisely, NBC will feature three new comedies on Thursday, but opening the evening with ratings-challenged (opposite red-hot “The Big Bang Theory” on CBS) puts the network at an automatic disadvantage. Returning (and relocated) “Parenthood” will cap off the Thursday at 10 p.m. Friday, meanwhile, will feature new drama “Dracula” out of the 8-10 p.m. combination of “Dateline” and “Grimm.” Saturday is all repeats and Sunday is football.

Also not returning on NBC is freshman drama “Deception” and newsmagazine “Rock Center With Brian Williams.” The futures of “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers,” “Fashion Star” and recently introduced drama “Hannibal” are still undecided. And “Community” and “Celebrity Apprentice” will be returning in midseason.

What follows are NBC’s new line-ups, fall 2013 and midseason 2014 (with new shows in caps), followed by the new series descriptions:

FALL 2013

Monday
8:00 p.m. “The Voice” (two hours)
10:00 p.m. “THE BLACKLIST”

Tuesday
8:00 p.m. “The Biggest Loser”
9:00 p.m. “The Voice” (new time)
10:00 p.m. “Chicago Fire” (new day)

Wednesday
8:00 p.m. “Revolution” (new day and time)
9:00 p.m. “Law & Order: SVU”
10:00 p.m. “IRONSIDE”

Thursday
8:00 p.m. “Parks and Recreation” (New time)
8:30 p.m. “WELCOME TO THE FAMILY”
9:00 p.m. “SEAN SAVES THE WORLD”
9:30 p.m. “THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW”
10:00 p.m. “Parenthood” (new day)

Friday
8:00 p.m. “Dateline”
9:00 p.m. “Grimm”
10:00 p.m. “DRACULA”

Saturday
8:00 p.m. Encore programming

Sunday
7:00 p.m. “Football Night in America”
8:15 p.m. “Sunday Night Football”

MIDSEASON

Monday
8:00 p.m. “The Voice” (two hours)
10:00 p.m. “The Blacklist”

Tuesday
8:00 p.m. “The Voice”
9:00 p.m. “ABOUT A BOY”
9:30 p.m. “THE FAMILY GUIDE”
10:00 p.m. “Chicago Fire”

Wednesday
8:00 p.m. “Revolution”
9:00 p.m. “Law & Order: SVU”
10:00 p.m. “Ironside”

Thursday
8:00 p.m. “Parks and Recreation”
8:30 p.m. “Welcome to the Family”
9:00 p.m. “Sean Saves the World”
9:30 p.m. “The Michael J. Fox Show”
10:00 p.m. “Parenthood”

Friday
8:00 p.m. “Dateline”
9:00 p.m. “Grimm”
10:00 p.m. “CROSSBONES”

Saturday
8:00 p.m. Encore programming

Sunday
7:00 p.m. “Dateline”
8:00 p.m. “AMERICAN DREAM BUILDERS”
9:00 p.m. “BELIEVE”
10:00 p.m. “CRISIS”

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New Programs

COMEDY

“About a Boy” (midseason)
Based on the Nicholas Hornsby book (and Hugh Grant movie), the relationship between a bachelor man-child (David Walton) and the young boy who moves in next door is the focus. Minnie Driver co-stars as the single mother neighbor.

“Family Guide” (midseason)
A son who idolizes his blind father and is amused by this mother’s newfound adolescence is post-divorce is the focus of this new single camera half-hour. Parker Posey, J.K. Simmons, Harold Perrineau, Eli Baker, Lance Lim and Ava Deluca-Verley star.

“The Michael J. Fox Show”
Semi-autobiographical in nature, a husband and father of three (Michael J. Fox) from New York City copes with his family, career and living with Parkinson’s disease. The cast includes Betsy Brandt (“Breaking Bad”), Kate Finneran (“I Hate My Teenage Daughter”), Juliette Goglia (“Easy A”), Jack Gore, Ana Nogueira, Wendall Price (“Treme”) and Conor Romero.

“Sean Saves the World”
Former “Will & Grace” star Sean Hayes stars as a perfectionist and divorced gay father whose 14-year-old daughter moves in with him full time while dealing temperamental new at boss, throwing his life into upheaval. Linda Lavin “Alice” co-stars.

“Undateable” (midseason)
Based on the upcoming book “Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won’t Be Dating or Having Sex”), the focus is on a confident slacker (Chris D’Elia) who takes on a roommate (Brent Morin) and inherits his group of romantically challenged friends.

“Welcome to the Family”
Parents Dan (Mike O’Malley, “Yes Dead,” “Glee”) and Karina (Mary McCormack, “In Plain Sight”) find out on the day their daughter (Ella Rae Peck (“Deception”) is graduating from high school with an acceptance to college, she announces she pregnant.

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DRAMA

“Believe” (midseason)
Executive produced by J.J. Abrams, a young girl (Johnny Sequoyah) with a “gift” gets protection from a recently sprung con to keep evil forces at bay. Jake McLaughlin, Kyle MacLachlan, Delroy Lindo, Jaime Chung, and Sienna Guillroy also star.

“The Blacklist”
An ex-government agent and now one of the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives (James Spader) offers to catch a long-thought-dead terrorist, Ranko Zamani, under the condition that he speaks only to Elizabeth “Liz” Keen (Megan Boone, “Law & Order: Los Angeles”), an FBI profiler. Diego Klattenhoff (“Homeland”), Harry Lennix (“Man of Steel”), Ryan Eggold (“90210”) and Ilfenesh Hadera (“Da Brick”) also star.

“Chicago PD”
The daily activity at the District 21 of the Chicago Police Department is the focus of this spin-off from “Chicago Fire.”

“Crisis” (midseason)
The aftermath of a school bus carrying the children of an elite private school who are captured by an evil mastermind is the focus. Durmot Mulroney, Gillian Anderson and James Lafferty star.

“Crossbones” (midseason)
Set in 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard (John Malkovich, “(In the Line of Fire”), reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors is the focus.

“Dracula” (midseason)
It’s the late 19th century and the mysterious Dracula (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He is interested in the new technology of electricity, which promises to brighten the night — useful for someone who avoids the sun. But he has another reason for his travels: He hopes to take revenge on those who cursed him with immortality centuries earlier.

“Ironside”
Headlined by Blair Underwood, “Ironside” follows the life of a police detective relegated to a wheel chair after a shooting. The original, with Raymond Burr, aired on NBC from 1967 to 1975.

“Night Shift”
The night shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital is the focus of the “ER” like medical drama. The ensemble cast includes Eoin Macken (“Merlin”), Ken Leung (“Lost”) and Brendan Fehr (“Roswell”),

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REALITY

“America’s Dream Builders” (midseason)
America’s top designers, builders, architects and landscapers go head-to-head each week, putting their talents to the test on extreme home renovations.

“Food Fighters” (midseason)
Hosted by Adam Richman (“Man vs. Food), the table is set for the ultimate culinary clash in this one part cooking competition, one part game show. Host Adam Richman (“Man v. Food”) will give homegrown amateur cooks the chance to test their skills against professional chefs.

“The Million Second Quiz” (12 consecutive nights next season)
Contestants test the limits of their knowledge, endurance and will to win as they battle each other in intense bouts of trivia for 12 consecutive days and nights in this live competition.

Fox has unveiled its programming plans for next season, which attempts to mix stability with 11 new series (six sitcoms, four dramas and one non-scripted). But the immediate obstacle, of course, is the deteriorating singing competitions: “The X Factor” in the fall and “American Idol” in midseason, which will remain in the Wednesday 8-10 p.m. and Thursday 9-10 p.m. programming blocks.

Four new series will be immediately present this fall. Drama “Sleepy Hollow” will air in originals Mondays at 9 p.m. (out of “Bones”) and in encores in the Friday 9 p.m. hour out of new Gordon Ramsay reality/competition “Junior Masterchef.” And two new sitcoms, “Dads” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” will populate the Tuesday 8 p.m. hour (into returning “New Girl” and “The Mindy Project”).

“Glee” remains Thursday at 9 p.m. (out of “The X Factor”), sports will air on Saturday, and Sunday’s 8-10 p.m. animation block is intact. Late fall, meanwhile, will feature the arrivals of two more new series: Drama “Almost Human” and sitcom “Enlisted.” “Almost Human” will replace “Bones” in the Monday 8 p.m. hour. And “Enlisted” will air out of returning comedy “Raising Hope” Fridays at 9:30 p.m. So, seven new series in total will air on Fox this fall.

Unlike NBC, Fox has not officially announced its complete midseason line-up. But waiting in the wings in the freshman series department are dramas “Rake” and “Gang Related”, and sitcoms “Surviving Jack,” “Us & Them” and animated “Murder Police.” Also returning is Kevin Bacon drama “The Following,” which will remain in the Monday 9 p.m. time period.

What follows is Fox in 2013-14, followed by the new series descriptions (bolded and in caps):

Monday
8:00 p.m. “Bones” / “ALMOST HUMAN” (late fall)
9:00 p.m. “SLEEPY HOLLOW” / “The Following” (midseason)

Tuesday
8:00 p.m. “DADS”
8:30 p.m. “BROOKLYN NINE-NINE”
9:00 p.m. “New Girl”
9:30 p.m. “The Mindy Project”

Wednesday
8:00 p.m. “The X Factor” (fall) / “American Idol” (midseason)

Thursday
8:00 p.m. “The X Factor Results Show” / “American Idol Results Show” (midseason)
9:00 p.m. “Glee” / “RAKE” (midseason)

Friday
8:00 p.m. “JUNIOR MASTERCHEF” / “Bones” (late fall)
9:00 p.m. “Sleepy Hollow” (encores”) / “Raising Hope” and “ENLISTED” (late fall)

Saturday
8:00 p.m. Fox Sports Saturday

Sunday
7:00 p.m. NFL Game
7:30 p.m. “The OT”
8:00 p.m. “The Simpsons”
8:30 p.m. “Bob’s Burgers”
9:00 p.m. “Family Guy”
9:30 p.m. “American Dad”

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COMEDY

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
A comical detective (Adam Samberg) at a New York precinct must adhere to his new by-the-book boss (Andre Braugher) who wants him to grow up and respect the badge.

“Dads”
Two successful men in their thirties (Seth Green, Giovanni Ribisi) must adjust to the arrival of their fathers (Martin Mull, Peter Riegert), who move in with them in this multi-camera buddy comedy from executive producer Seth MacFarlane.

“Enlisted”
A soldier (David Keith) returning home after several years takes on the even tougher assignment of working together in the Army with his two dysfunctional brothers (Geoff Stults, Parker Young) at a small based in Florida.

“Murder Police” (midseason)
A dedicated, but inept detective and his motley colleagues in a twisted city precinct is the focus of this new animated comedy. Actors lending their voices to what sounds like an animated version of classic comedy “Barney Miller” include Will Sasso (“The Three Stooges”), Lane Lynch (“Glee”), Chi McBride (“Golden Boy”), Justina Machado (“Private Practice), Jason Ruiz and Wilmer Valderrama (“That ‘70s Show”).

“Surviving Jack” (midseason)
Based on Justin Halpern’s book “I Suck at Girls,” a boy becomes a man (Connor Buckley) and a man becomes a father (Chris Meloni) in this 1990s Southern California-based single camera half hour.

“Us and Them” (midseason)
Based on British BBC2 series “Gavin & Stacey,” two very different lovers (Jason Ritter, Alexis Bledel) meet and try to make a long distance relationship work. Kurt Feller (“Psych”), Jane Kaczmarek (“Malcolm in the Middle”), Kerry Kenney (“Reno 911!”), Ashley Atkinson and Dustin Ybarra co-star.

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DRAMA

“Almost Human”
Set in Los Angeles in the not so distant future, human police officers are partnered with highly evolved androids with very different human characteristics. J.J. Abrams is an executive producer.

“Gang Related” (midseason)
A gang member who infiltrates the San Francisco Police Department and rises through the ranks is the focus of this police-themed drama. The cast includes Terry O’Quinn (“Lost”), Ramon Rodriguez (“Charlie’s Angels”), Jay Hendandez (“Last Resort”), Sung Kang (“The Fast and the Furious”), Inbar Lavi (“Underemployed”), Cliff Curtis (“Missing”) and Shantel VanSanten (“One Tree Hill”).

“Rake” (midseason)
Based on an Australian series of the same name, the chaotic and comedic life of a divorced criminal defense attorney (Greg Kinner) is the focus. The cast includes Miranda Otto (“Lord of the Rings”), Necar Zadegan (“Emily Owens, M.D.”), Nojana Novakovic (“Edge of Darkness”), John Ortiz (“Luck”), Ian Coletti and Tata Summers (“Boston Legal”).

“Sleepy Hollow”
After being mortally wounded in a Revolutionary War battle, a man (Orlando Jones) wakes up two centuries later in the town of Sleepy Hollow and realizes the person he killed, The Headless Horseman, has also returned from the dead. Katia Winter (“Dexter”), Nicole Beharie (“The Good Wife”) and Tom Mison (“Parade’s End”) also star.

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NON-SCRIPTED

Junior Masterchef
Targeted to kids between the ages of 8 and 13 who enjoy cooking and featuring Gordon Ramsay, “Junior Masterchef” give these budding young cooks the opportunity to showcase their talent and culinary expertise through a series of challenges and cook-offs.

ABC will introduce eight new series this fall (four sitcoms and four dramas), with changes on five nights of the week (excluding Monday and Saturday, which will once again feature college football). The new sitcoms are “The Goldbergs” and “Trophy Wife,” which will populate the Tuesday 9 p.m. hour (out of new drama “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), and “Back in the Game” and “Super Fun Night,” which will be positioned between “The Middle” and “Modern Family” on Wednesday. In addition to “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” the new dramas are “Lucky 7,” which will air Tuesday at 10 p.m.; spin-off “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland,” which will anchor Thursday; and “Betrayal” in the Sunday 10 p.m. hour (out of “Revenge”).

Four additional new shows will be introduced in midseason, including sitcom “Mixology,” dramas “Killer Women,” “Mind Games” and “Resurrection” and reality adventure “The Quest.”

Immediately absent is the live “Dancing With the Stars” hour on Tuesday, which will now feature the results revealed within the two-hours on Monday. And not returning are sitcoms “Happy Endings,” “Malibu Country” and recently introduced “How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life”) and “Family Tools,” and dramas “Body of Proof” and “Red Widow.”

What follows is the ABC primetime line-up this fall (with new shows in caps), followed by the new program descriptions.

Monday
8:00 p.m. “Dancing With the Stars” (two hours)
10:00 p.m. “Castle”

Tuesday
8:00 p.m. “MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.”
9:00 p.m. “THE GOLDBERGS”
9:30 p.m. “TROPHY WIFE”
10:00 p.m. “LUCKY 7”

Wednesday
8:00 p.m. “The Middle”
8:30 p.m. “BACK IN THE GAME”
9:00 p.m. “Modern Family”
9:30 p.m. “SUPER FUN NIGHT”
10:00 p.m. “Nashville”

Thursday
8:00 p.m. “ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND”
9:00 p.m. “Grey’s Anatomy”
10:00 p.m. “Scandal”

Friday
8:00 p.m. “Last Man Standing”
8:30 p.m. “The Neighbors” (new day)
9:00 p.m. “Shark Tank”
10:00 p.m. “20/20”

Saturday
8:00 p.m. “Saturday Night College Football”

Sunday
7:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
8:00 p.m. “Once Upon a Time”
9:00 p.m. “Revenge”
10:00 p.m. “BETRAYAL”

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COMEDY

“Back in the Game”
A stubborn single mother has to move back home with her prickly and widowed father, a former minor league baseball player. James Caan (“Las Vegas”), Ben Koldyke (“How I Met Your Mother”) and Maggie Lawson (“Psych”) star.

“The Goldbergs”
An overbearing, emotional shopaholic with a big mouth and no sense of boundaries is the focus of this 1980s set half-hour. The cast includes Wendi McLendon-Covey (“Bridesmaids”), Jeff Garlin (”Curb Your Enthusiasm”) and George Segal (“Don’t Shoot Me”).

“Mixology” (midseason)
Set in a Manhattan bar, the adventures of singles in search of love over the course of one night is chronicled. Sarah Bolger (“Once Upon a Time”), Kate Simes (“What’s Your Number”) and Blake Lee (“Parks & Recreation”) star. Ryan Seacrest is an executive producer.

“Super Fun Night”
After her younger sister gets married, a young woman decides to reinvent her social life by having “super fun” adventures with her two best female friends every Friday night. Rebel Wilson “(Bridesmaids”), Lauren Ash (“Lost Girl”) and Liza Lapira (“Don’t Trust the B____ in Apartment 23”) star.

“Trophy Wife”
A reformed party girl who marries a man twenty years her senior has two put up with two judgmental ex-wives and three manipulative stepchildren. Malin Akerman, Bradley Whitford, Marcia Gay Harden and Natalie Morales star.

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DRAMA

“Betrayal”
Based on the Dutch series “Overspel,” a beautiful but unhappily married female photographer begins a torrid love affair with a high-powered attorney. The twist: her lover is defending a murder suspect who is being prosecuted by her husband. James Cromwell (“American Horror Story: Asylum”), Henry Thomas (“E.T.”) and Hannah Ware (“Boss”) star.

“Killer Women” (midseason)
Based on the Argentine series “Mujeres Asesina,” the only woman in the all-male and notorious Texas Rangers is the focus. Tricia Helfer (“Battlestar Galactica”), Marc Blucas (“Necessary Roughness”) and Michael Trucco (“Battlestar Galactica”) star. Sofia Vergara is an executive producer.

“Lucky 7”
Based on BBC series “The Syndicate,” seven employees working at a service station in Queens, New York see their lives completely change after they win the lottery. Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (“The Wife”), Stephen Louis Grush, Summer Bishil (“Towelhead”) and Anastasia Phillips (“Skins”) star. Steven Spielberg is an executive producer.

“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
From Joss Whedon (“Avengers”) and based on Marvel Comic Book’s peacekeeping organization called S.H.I.E.L.D., a worldwide law enforcement organization polices the new, the strange and the unknown. The cast includes Ming-Na (“ER”), Clark Gregg (reprising his “Avengers” role), Elizabeth Henstridge (“Hollyoaks) and Chloe Bennett (“Nashville”).

“Mind Games”
Two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — head a unique agency designed to solve problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. Steve Zahn (“Treme”) and Christian Slater (“True Romance”) lead the cast.

“Once Upon a Time in Wonderland”
Spun-off from Sunday drama “Once Upon a Time,” the young and beautiful Alice (Sophie Lowe) tells of a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole in Victorian England. Included is an invisible cat, a hookah smoking caterpillar and playing-cards that talk. John Lithgow is the irrepressible White Rabbit.

“Resurrection” (midseason)
The lives of the people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return. The cast includes Omar Epps (“House”), Matt Craven (“Crimson Tide”), Devin Kelley (“The Chicago Code”) and Frances Fisher (“Titanic”).

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NON-SCRIPTED

“The Quest” (midseason)
Described as fantast meets reality, twelve contestants go on the journey of a lifetime in a unique competition where players will engage in epic challenges.

CBS, the most-watched network, will place an emphasis on comedy next season with four of its five new fall series sitcoms. The network will make changes on five nights (excluding Wednesday and, surprisingly, Sunday), with four hours of comedies (two on Monday and Thursday) and new time periods for “Person of Interest” (Tuesday at 10 p.m. out of “NCIS: Los Angeles”), “Two and a Half Men” (Thursday at 9:30 p.m. out of new sitcom “The Crazy Ones” with Robin Williams) and “Hawaii Five-O” (Friday at 9 p.m. out of “Undercover Boss” and into “Blue Bloods”).

The new fall series are comedies “We Are Men,” Mom,” “The Millers” and aforementioned “The Crazy Ones” and drama “Hostages” (featuring former “Lost” star Josh Holloway), which will air Mondays at 10 p.m. out of “Mom.” The Eye net will add three new series to the mix in midseason (dramas “Intelligence,” which will replace “Hostages,” and “Reckless,” and sitcom “Friends With Better Lives”). Also on tap in midseason will be returning “Mike & Molly,” which heads into season four. Not making the cut was proposed “NCIS: Los Angeles” spin-off “NCIS: Red.”

Not returning on CBS next season are dramas “CSI: NY,” “Vegas” and “Golden Boy,” and benchwarmer sitcom “Rules of Engagement.”

Here is CBS’ fall lone-up, with the new series bolded and the new series descriptions following:

Monday
8:00 p.m. “How I Met Your Mother”
8:30 p.m. “WE ARE MEN”
9:00 p.m. “2 Broke Girls”
9:30 p.m. “MOM”
10:00 p.m. “HOSTAGES” (“INTELLIGENCE” in midseason)

Tuesday
8:00 p.m. “NCIS”
9:00 p.m. “NCIS: Los Angeles”
10:00 p.m. “PERSON OF INTEREST” (new day and time)

Wednesday
8:00 p.m. “Survivor”
9:00 p.m. “Criminal Minds”
10:00 p.m. “CSI”

Thursday
8:00 p.m. “The Big Bang Theory”
8:30 p.m. “THE MILLERS”
9:00 p.m. “THE CRAZY ONES”
9:30 p.m. “Two and a Half Men” (new time)
10:00 p.m. “Elementary”

Friday
8:00 p.m. “Undercover Boss”
9:00 p.m. “Hawaii Five-O” (new day and time)
10:00 p.m. “Blue Bloods”

Saturday
8:00 p.m. Comedytime Saturday (repeats)
8:30 p.m. Comedy Time Saturday (repeats)
9:00 p.m. Crimetime Saturday (repeats)
10:00 p.m. “48 Hours”

Sunday
7:00 p.m. “60 Minutes”
8:00 p.m. “The Amazing Race”
9:00 p.m. “The Good Wife”
10:00 p.m. “The Mentalist”

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New Program Descriptions

COMEDY

“Crazy Ones”
Robin Williams returns to the format that made him famous in this single camera workplace comedy from David E. Kelley based on the 2011 theatrical starring Cameron Diaz. Williams will play an ad executive who works alongside his daughter (Sarah Michelle Gellar).

“Friends With Better Lives” (midseason)
A group of friends in their 30s who think the other ones all have it better is the focus. One couple is married with three children, another couple is recently engaged, and a third is getting divorced. Rounding off the ensemble is one single woman who just won’t settle down. James Van Der Beek (“Don’t Trust the B____ in Apartment 23”), Brooklyn Decker (“The League”). Kevin Connolly (“Entourage”), Majanda Delfino (“Roswell”), Rick Donald and Zoe Lister Jones (“Whitney”) star.

“The Millers”
Will Arnett stars as a recently divorced local roving news reporter looking forward to living the singles’ life until his parents’ marital problems derail his plans. Margo Martindale and Beau Bridges co-star.

“Mom”
Hit-maker Chuck Lorre has his fourth sitcom on CBS in this multi-camera tale of a newly sober single (Ana Faris) mother living in Napa Valley, California. The cast includes Allison Janney (“The West Wing”), Nate Corddry (“Harry’s Law”), Matt Jomes (“Breaking Bad”), Spencer Daniels (“The Office”), Sadie Calvano and “3rd Rock From the Sun” star French Stewart.

“We Are Men”
Four single men living in a short-term apartment complex unexpectedly find camaraderie over their many missteps in love in this single camera half-hour. Tony Shalhoub, Chris Smith, Kal Penn and Jerry O’Connell star.

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DRAMA

“Hostages”
From Jerry Bruckheimer, a premiere surgeon (Toni Collette) is thrust into a political conspiracy when her family is taken hostage by a rogue FBI agent (Dylan McDermott). The cast includes James Naughton, Rhys Coiro, Billy Brown and Sandrine Holt.

“Intelligence” (midseason)
After a high-tech intelligence operative (Josh Holloway) is enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain, he becomes the first human ever to be connected directly into the worldwide information grid with complete access to Internet, WiFi, telephone and satellite data. Marg Helgenberger (“CSI”) co-stars.

The CW is making changes to 80 percent of its five-night (and 10-hour) line-up, with only “Arrow” and “The Vampire Diaries” remaining in their established time periods. The network will introduce three new scripted dramas this fall (“The Originals,” a spin-off from “The Vampire Diaries,” “The Tomorrow People” and “Reign’), with the changes impacting all five evenings.

“Hart of Dixie” will move back to its original night, Monday, only at 8 p.m. ET this time and into relocated “Beauty and the Beast.” Recent Monday anchor “The Carrie Diaries,” the prequel to “Sex and the City,” will shift to Friday 8 p.m. into the surprise return of veteran reality/competition “America’s Next Top Model.” Current Friday “Nikita” will be held back until midseason for its final six episodes.

Tuesday will open with “The Originals,” followed relocated “Supernatural” at 9 p.m.; and Wednesday will feature The CW’s freshman breakout hit from this season, “Arrow,” into new drama “The Tomorrow People.” Thursday is crown jewel “The Vampire Diaries” into new drama “Reign.”

In addition to “Nikita” in midseason, The CW will introduce three additional series: dramas “The 100” and “Star-Cross” and non-scripted “Famous in 12.”

Overall, there are pluses and minuses to The CW’s schedule. The positives are the three new fall dramas, which sound perfectly compatible with their companion series, and leading off Tuesday with highly anticipated “The Originals” means it is not buried under a low-rated lead-in. But relocated “Hart of Dixie,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Carrie Dairies” are unlikely to fare any better than they did this season, and bringing back “America’s Next Top Model” is just plain unnecessary.

What follows is The CW’s schedule, with the new series in caps.

Monday
8:00 p.m. “Hart of Dixie” (new night)
9:00 p.m. “Beauty and the Beast” (new night)

Tuesday
8:00 p.m. “THE ORIGINALS”
9:00 p.m. “Supernatural” (new night)

Wednesday
8:00 p.m. “Arrow”
9:00 p.m. “THE TOMORROW PEOPLE”

Thursday
8:00 p.m. “The Vampire Diaries”
9:00 p.m. “REIGN”

Friday
8:00 p.m. “The Carrie Diaries” (new night)
9:00 p.m. “America’s Next Top Model”

New Program Descriptions

DRAMA

“The 100” (midseason)
Based on the upcoming book series “The Hundred” and set 97 years after a nuclear war destroys civilization, a spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to earth to look into the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. The cast includes Eliza Taylor (“Neighbours”), Bob Morley (“Home and Away”), Eli Goree (“Emily Owens, M.D.”), Henry Ian Cusick (“Lost”), Marie Avgeropoulos (“Cult”), Paige Turco (“Person of Interest”) and Isaiah Washington (“Grey’s Anatomy”).

“The Originals”
Spun-off from “The Vampire Diaries,” a family of vampires who find themselves displaced in the French Quarter of New Orleans is the focus. The ensemble cast includes Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Claire Holt, Danielle Campbell (“Prison Break”), Charles Michael Davis (“The Game”) and Leah Pipes (“Sorority Row”).

“Reign”
Described as an historical and romantic drama that reveals a previously unknown story of Mary Queen of Scots, Mary’s rise to power in the 16th century French court is the focus. Adelaide Kane (“Neighbours”), Toby Regbo, Megan Follows (“Anne of Green Gables”), Anna Popplewell, Rissif Sutherland and Jenessa Grant star.

“Star-Crossed” (midseason)
Based on a Spanish format, the series centers around a human girl and and an alien boy, after he and eight others of his kind are integrated into a suburban high school after being consigned to an internment camp. Aimee Teagarden (“Friday Night Lights”) and Matt Lanter (“(0210”) lead the cast.

“The Tomorrow People”
Based on a 1970s UK series and focused on an eighteen year old who finds out he is acquiring supernatural powers, a group of young people from around the world represent the next stage of human evolution referred to as “The Tomorrow People.” Born to human parents, they develop special abilities and band together to fight the forces of evil. Peyton List (“Mad Men”), Luke Mitchell (“Home and Away”), Robbie Amell (“Revenge”) and Mark Pellegrino (“Lost”) star.

NON-SCRIPTED

“Famous in 12”
Described as a social experiment that tracks the lives of one determined family as they move to Los Angeles and seek fame in a 12-week window, each member of the family will get a series of challenges to create a public profile. After they succeed at their challenges, the family will appear on daily entertainment magazine “TMZ” and TMZ.com, which will raise their profile. In addition to the challenges, the family will circulate day to day where celebrities hang and opportunities call.

ABC: 8 new series (4 dramas, 4 sitcoms)
CBS: 5 new series (1 drama, 4 sitcom)
NBC: 6 new series (3 dramas, 3 sitcoms)
Fox: 4 new series (1 drama, 2 sitcoms, 1 non scripted)
CW: 3 new series (3 dramas)

The breakdown by day is as follows:

Monday: 5 new series (3 dramas, 2 sitcoms)
Tuesday: 7 new series (3 dramas, 4 sitcoms)
Wednesday: 4 new series (2 dramas, 2 sitcoms)
Thursday: 7 new series (2 dramas, 5 sitcoms)
Friday: 2 new series (1 drama, 1 non-scripted)
Sunday: 1 new series (1 drama)

As a benchmark, Fall 2012 featured 21 new series (12 dramas, 9 sitcoms). And Fall 2011 had 27 new shows (14 dramas, 11 sitcoms, 2 non-scripted).

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The following is the Fall 2013 Broadcast Network schedule.

New series are indicated in blue. Series in new time slots are indicated in red.

MON	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	Dancing with the Stars				Castle
	How I Met Your Mother	We Are Men	2 Broke Girls	Mom	Hostages
	The Voice				The Blacklist
	Bones		Sleepy Hollow		Local Programming
	Hart of Dixie		Beauty and the Beast		Local Programming
TUE	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.		The Goldbergs	Trophy Wife	Lucky 7
	NCIS		NCIS: Los Angeles		Person of Interest
	The Biggest Loser		The Voice		Chicago Fire
	Dads	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	New Girl	The Mindy Project	Local Programming
	The Originals		Supernatural		Local Programming
WED	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	The Middle	Back in the Game	Modern Family	Super Fun Night	Nashville
	Survivor: Blood vs. Water		Criminal Minds		CSI
	Revolution		Law & Order: SVU		Ironside
	The X Factor				Local Programming
	Arrow		The Tomorrow People		Local Programming
THU	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland		Grey’s Anatomy		Scandal
	The Big Bang Theory	The Millers	Crazy Ones	Two and a Half Men	Elementary
	Parks and Recreation	Welcome to the Family	Sean Saves the World	The Michael J. Fox Show	Parenthood
	The X Factor		Glee		Local Programming
	The Vampire Diaries		Reign		Local Programming
FRI	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	Last Man Standing	The Neighbors	Shark Tank		20/20
	Undercover Boss		Hawaii Five-0		Blue Bloods
	Dateline NBC		Grimm		Dracula
	Junior Masterchef		Encore programming		Local Programming
	The Carrie Diaries		America’s Next Top Model		Local Programming
SAT	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	Saturday Night Football
	Comedytime Saturday		Crimetime Saturday		48 Hours
	Encore programming
	FOX College Football

SUN	7:00	7:30	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	10:00	10:30
	America’s Funniest Home Videos		Once Upon a Time		Revenge		Betrayal
	60 Minutes		The Amazing Race		The Good Wife		The Mentalist
	Football Night in America			Sunday Night Football
	NFL	The OT	The Simpsons	Bob’s Burgers	Family Guy	American Dad	Local Programming

As the current traditional (September to May) television season comes to a close, we reflect on the past eight months and observe the eight lessons learned in that time:

1. CABLE: THE HOME OF TV’S NEWEST MEGA-HIT SERIES

Let’s see… what were the last big new hit series on broadcast television? “2 Broke Girls” took off for CBS in 2011-12. “The Voice” did well for NBC in its 2011 inaugural season. ABC’s “Modern Family” immediately flourished in 2010. CBS’ “The Mentalist” broke out in 2007-08. And, of course, the legendary 2004-05 season comes to mind when ABC debuted both “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost.” But the big new hits are becoming harder to find on broadcast.

Usually, the summer season is cable’s time to shine (and it still is). But within this official season, the viewer and demo figures of “The Walking Dead” on AMC, “Duck Dynasty” on A&E, and History Channel miniseries “The Bible” — even HBO’s “Game of Thrones” — have easily rivaled (and often surpassed) their broadcast network competition.

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2. BIG NAMES, SMALL RETURNS

In an effort to boost interest in established series, several big-named celebrities were hired. Britney Spears on Fox’s “X Factor”, Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban on Fox’s “American Idol,” and on the scripted front, Jennifer Hudson on “Smash” on NBC. In the end, however, it was all much ado about nothing. All three series experienced significant and worrisome ratings declines. “The X Factor” is entering its third season with its second consecutive major judging/coaching overhaul. Randy Jackson has officially announced his “Idol” departure, amidst rumors of the show’s other three judges getting the boot. And, the Tuesday “Smash” figures were so low, NBC sent the series packing to depressed Saturday.

3. THURSDAYS WERE TV’S NEW DUMPING GROUNDS
Saturdays have long been television’s wasteland. And Fridays were close behind until shows like “Shark Tank”, “Grimm”, “Undercover Boss”, “Blue Bloods” and “Last Man Standing” have recently buoyed the night in modest fashion. One can actually point to almost every night of the week and pick out some obvious duds. But this season, the typically lucrative Thursday nights was atypically filled with more stink bombs than usual.

NBC was already heading into the fall of 2012 with very low expectations for Thursdays — a night once known for “Must See TV.” Comedies “Up All Night”, “1600 Penn” and, for a brief time, “Go On” barely found an audience as did the network’s three 10 p.m. occupants — “Rock Center With Brian Williams”, “Do No Harm” and the critically-praised “Hannibal.” “30 Rock” finally concluded after six seasons, but it too was never a ratings-winner, and “The Office” and “Community” plummeted to series lows.

ABC, meanwhile, still cannot find an audience at 8 p.m. Drama “Last Resort” began decently but then skewed too old until it ultimately faded. “Zero Hour” barely made a blip and “Wife Swap” was mere filler until perennial summer game show “Wipeout” returned (which also started out slow). And oddly renewed “Beauty and the Beast” on The CW actually performed worse than its canceled 2011-12 time slot predecessor, “The Secret Circle.”

CBS’s only new series to make it to next season, drama “Elementary,” did not exactly impress the masses at large. It experienced one of the lowest-ever audience-retentions for programs airing out of the Super Bowl (although the game’s delay due to a power outage caused the episode to begin airing way past prime time) and it routinely placed a distant second in its 10 p.m. time slot in adults 18-49. And that was with solid “Person of Interest” as a lead-in.

While CBS’s “Two and a Half Men”, ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and Fox’s “Glee” may not technically be ratings-deficient these days, all three shows have gone creatively-defunct and are way past their primes. In other words: Much of Thursday night is becoming “Must Flee TV!”

4. “SCANDAL” IS A BONA FIDE HIT

While Thursdays have aired many ratings (and creative) failures, the ABC political drama from Shonda Rhimes and starring Kerry Washington (who also appeared in the recent box office and award-winning hit, “Django Unchained”) is one of broadcast TV’s few bourgeoning hits. It did just modestly well when it premiered in the spring of 2012, but its second season has seen a significant uptick. In adults 18-49, “Scandal” consistently wins its 10 p.m. time slot and while most shows have experienced the typical ratings declines in the spring, this show has not only maintained its numbers but has surpassed its lead-in: Rhimes’ veteran hit series, “Grey’s Anatomy.”

5. CBS AND FOX GOT CAUGHT PLAYING IT TOO CONSERVATIVE
Each year, there is always risk, of course, when laying out a new fall schedule. Most new shows fail to hit. And going into 2012-13, CBS and Fox rested on their laurels for the most part, and took a conservative approach. The result of their lack of aggression: lackluster dividends.

Fox depended mainly on their biggest hits, “X Factor” and “American Idol”, but they each declined a hefty 20-30 percent from last year. The network will bring back comedy “The Mindy Project” for next season, which, at several times this season drew a minuscule 2-3 million viewers based on Live+SD. And by now, we’ve already forgotten about “Ben and Kate” and “The Mob Doctor.” But there was one diamond in the rough: midseason drama “The Following” with Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy.

CBS wasn’t so lucky.

“Made in Jersey” went out as quickly as it entered. “Partners” delivered some of CBS’s worst Monday night ratings in decades. And “Vegas”, despite the top-notch pairing of Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis, failed to hold on to much of its “NCIS: Los Angeles” lead-in and was later shipped off to Fridays (and ultimate cancellation). The Eye net’s two midseason series, “The Job” and “Golden Boy”, were short-lived and made scarce impact. And the network’s lone new entry to survive the season, “Elementary”, wasn’t the huge breakout hit the network was hoping for (as noted in my section about Thursdays this season).

6. NBC PROUD TO HAVE TV’S TOP TWO BROADCAST SHOWS BUT STILL MUCH WORK TO DO
The Peacock network had a joyous September through December of 2012 — tops in adults 18-49 among all networks for the first time since the days of “Friends”, “Frasier” and “Will and Grace” — all thanks to “Sunday Night Football” and “The Voice.” But the absence of both in January 2013 sent the Peacock net crashing to fourth place. It was a midseason to forget with new but short-lived entries like “Deception”, “1600 Penn”, “Do No Harm”, “Ready for Love” and “Hannibal”, along with the disappointing returns for “Smash”, “Whitney”, “Fashion Star”, the over-bloated “Celebrity Apprentice”, and the Dan-Harmon-less “Community.”

“Revolution”, meanwhile, only survives because of the lead-in support from “The Voice,” but the audience retention is slim.

On the positive side, “Grimm” has consistently drawn young demo interest — moreso in its current test from airing out of the Tuesday edition of “The Voice.” Viewers are gradually coming back to NBC Wednesdays, thanks to Dick Wolf’s “Chicago Fire”. And, the network was able to halt the precipitous ratings decline of “Biggest Loser” by airing just one edition from only January through March. The reality contest was a respectable competitor to its direct time slot opponent, ABC’s perennial “The Bachelor.”

7. THE CW STILL EXISTS
Microscopic ratings have consistently plagued several of CW’s shows, like the finally ending “90210,” as well as “Sex and the City” prequel “Carrie Diaries,” “Hart of Dixie,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Nikita.” The figures for “America’s Next Top Model”, which used to deliver 3-4 million viewers/week not too long ago, have fallen by the way side.

Marc “Mr. TV” Berman sometimes states that a network can’t cancel everything. As it entered into 2012-13, with the majority of shows vastly underperforming at a continual basis for the netlet, one could have asked: is it possible the CW could actually reach the point of canceling everything… including itself?

Then came “Arrow,” based on the superhero character from DC Comics. “Arrow” was an instant big hit (by CW standards, that is) and there was renewed interest on Wednesday, pairing it with the long-running hit, “Supernatural.”

With “The Originals” on the horizon — the spinoff of the netlet’s other hit “Vampire Diaries” — the CW will still be around. For a little while, at the very least.

8. SPORTS ON TELEVISION IS AT ITS MOST PREMIUM VALUE
In this day of age where time-shifted viewing is part of the television household norm and where users of digital video recorders can fast-forward through ad breaks on recorded shows, sports is the most popular televised genre that advertisers treasure, now more than ever. Sporting events are DVR-proof. The end time of a sporting event is always unpredictable (making it difficult to record at an exact time frame) and by the event’s conclusion, results are widely known, aided by an ever-increasing social media impact.

Within the past two years, major professional and collegiate sports associations have struck enormous 9 or 10-figure deals with various networks to broadcast their product.

Over a decade ago, there was backlash at NBA commissioner David Stern’s decision to move the vast majority of his league’s games from his then-successful partnership with NBC to cable’s TNT and ESPN. In hindsight, the move was a rousing success as the league continues to thrive. This May — a month deemed as broadcast’s sweeps month — the NBA playoffs have given TNT and ESPN nightly demo victories over most (and sometimes, all) of its respective broadcast network competition.

The popular sport of college football eventually followed the NBA’s path to cable. Since their move to ESPN in 2011, their January championship bowl games have drawn similarly big audiences — even record cable crowds — than when they had aired on a broadcast network in years prior. Ratings (and profits) are expected to go even higher with their newly-installed playoff system, coming in 2015.

In March 2013, the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament — airing in a partnership of CBS, TNT, TBS and truTV — delivered its largest average viewership (10.7 million) since 1994′s 11.2 million viewers, when it had then aired solely on CBS.

It was a dominant Thursday for Fox courtesy of the two-hour “American Idol” season-ender. But 13.61 million viewers and a 3.4 rating/11 share among adults 18-49 (based on the fast affiliate data from Nielsen) was down by a hefty 7.88 million viewers and 47 percent in the demo from the year-ago season-finale (Viewers: 21.49 million; A18-49: 6.4/18 on 5/23/12, based on the live plus same day data). Remember the days when the “American Idol” season-ender housed 30-million viewers? This is, in fact, the first “Idol”-ender not to hit the 20-million mark.

Elsewhere, “The Big Bang Theory” concluded season five on CBS as the top-rated show of the night, with 14.78 million viewers and a 4.4/18 among adults 18-49 at 8 p.m. “The Office” ended its nine-season (and 200 episode run) on NBC with a season-high performance (and a very satisfying send-off in this viewers’ opinion). The season-finale of “Grey’s Anatomy” still has life on ABC, but sophomore lead-out “Scandal,” also a season-ender, was the standout. And the two-hour season-finale of “Elementary” on CBS earned its renewal stripes with an adequate 8.93 million viewers and a 2.0/ 6 in the demo from 9-11 p.m. (opposite a night of heavy competition).

Click on the following for the fast affiliate results for Thursday, May 16 broken out by network and by each half-hour: http://tinyurl.com/b6yyb9o

Said Mark Stern, President, Original Content, Syfy, and Co-Head, Original Content, Universal Cable Productions: “Warehouse 13” has been an incredible signature series for us. We are grateful to the loyal and passionate fan base and know that Jack Kenny, his gifted creative team, and outstanding ensemble cast will give them an amazing finale season.”

A production of Universal Cable Productions, “Warehouse 13” will begin filming in Toronto this summer.